If you had truly failed, and your polygrapher wanted to bring to bear as much psychological pressure as possible to get an admission out of you, then he should have confronted you directly with the news that you had unambiguously failed. His comment "I still have to score these" undermined the potential effectiveness of the polygraph as an interrogatory prop and may provide ground for some optimism regarding the result. On the other hand, it is also possible that your polygrapher is simply not a very effective interrogator.

Congratulations, and good luck in the rest of the hiring process!

To help ensure that you'll never have to take another polygraph again, please consider writing to your congressional representative and senators and asking them to sponsor a Comprehensive Employee Polygraph Protection Act. (You can include with your letter a printout of the suggested language for such legislation, which is also available at pp. 179-190 of the 3rd edition of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector.)

In addition, please consider helping to shatter the myth of the lie detector. If you participate in other message boards, you could share there what you've learned here. You might also wish to participate in the Campus Poster Initiative. It's an easy, very low cost way to reach many people.